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A number of these improvements are the work of Tierra Grata, a nonprofit founded in Cartagena in 2015 to bring essential services to people in remote areas of Colombia. Tierra Grata’s co-founder and CEO Jenifer Colpas Fernández, 32, who started developing the idea for the organization a decade ago, had to leave her native Colombia to recognize its problems — and to see that there were solutions.

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